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Following in My Grand Fathers Foot steps.

Photo by: Patrick  Lynch This is a very LONG story takes about an hour to tell . But will try to give the short version. Last year a wonderful . . .
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Camp Kanawyer in Kings Canyon

Photo by: Merry  Clingen Dear Mr. Burns, My maiden name is Merry Anne Kanawyer, and am descended from the Kanawyer family, who opened a camp store and "resort" in . . .
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Frontal systems and hurricanes make for more time to explore

Photo by: Erin Macchia In early November of this year, my friend and I visited Dry Tortugas National Park. Inspired by Ken Burns' documentary, we wanted to visit a . . .
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Yosemite's Camp Curry

Photo by: Paul Campbell In September 2008 I spent a great week in a tent cabin in Curry Village, one of the campgrounds in the Yosemite Valley, sited beneath . . .
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Pearl Harbor as told to Chad Welker

During the summer of 2009, I visited the USS Arizona and USS Missouri memorials at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, while chaperoning my daughter’s cheerleading . . .
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The Grand Canyon from a Bird's Eye View as told to Dakota Powell

When I visited the Grand Canyon, I was working on a Pipeline job in Arizona. It was only a few hours away, and I did . . .
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The Great Sand Dunes as told to Carter Baldwin

I lived in Colorado for the younger years of my life. When I was seventeen or eighteen I would go to the Great Sand Dunes . . .
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Yellowstone National Park as told to Bryan Frank

There is nothing that is really outstanding about Yellowstone National Park. At the end of July in 1994, my friends and I took a road . . .
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The Beautiful Grand Teton as told to Elizabeth Sullivan

In 1972 or 1973, I took a trip to Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming for my mother’s family reunion, which was to last for . . .
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